That's How Rumors Get Started
Margo Price
The title track from Price's 2020 rock pivot wraps small-town gossip culture in a stomping, organ-soaked groove that borrows equally from classic soul and country grit. The production is deliberately more muscular than her debut work — live-feeling drums, electric guitars with real bite, a rhythm section that insists on being felt physically. Price delivers the lyrics with theatrical knowingness, playing the subject of idle talk while also indicting the tellers. The chorus lands like a shrug and an accusation simultaneously. There's a communal, almost party-like energy to the track despite its cynical underpinnings, which makes it both a dancing song and a thinking song. Best experienced loud in a crowd of people who've all survived someone else's version of their story.
fast
2020s
muscular, warm, punchy
United States
Country, Soul. Country-Soul. Energetic, Sardonic. Begins with theatrical knowingness and builds into a communal, stomping release that turns cynical subject matter into something almost celebratory. energy 8. fast. danceability 8. valence 6. vocals: theatrical, assertive, knowing, expressive, playful. production: organ-soaked, live drums, electric guitar, rhythm-section-forward, soul-influenced. texture: muscular, warm, punchy. acousticness 2. era: 2020s. United States. Best experienced loud in a crowd of people who have all survived someone else's version of their story.